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Dear Moretown families,
March 14th is Pi Day (3.14) and to celebrate we are having a pie reading celebration! If our school reads 30,000 pages in one week, everyone will get pie and Mr. Pierson will get a pie in the face!! A chart will be sent home with your child to track the number of pages (s)he reads each day. Every page read at home counts twice! The student book committee will do the doubling when tallying up pages so please have students only record actual number of pages read. Please initial the chart to verify that your child has read their pages. We are encouraging any kind of reading. Students can count pages read in any type of book or if it was read out loud to them.
We hope that this will be a fun filled week that inspires us all! Thank you for helping our community grow as readers! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me: ewood@wwsu.org.
Sincerely,
Emily Wood, Moretown School Librarian
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MECA Summer Camps!
The time has finally come to sign up for MECA 2018 Summer Camps!
You can find the MECA 2018 Summer Camp Brochure here:
Below please find the links to register Online!
Preschool Summer Camp Registration Form (Grade Entering in Fall of 2018):
K-6th Grade Summer Camp Registration Form (Grade Entering in Fall of 2018):
If you have any trouble with the online form please let me know. Hard copy forms are also available at your request. Sign ups for camps are on a first come first serve basis so Sign up Today! REGISTRATION FOR MECA CAMP IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED A CONFIRMATION EMAIL. Confirmation emails will be sent within 48 hours(business days) of completing your registration form.
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Books Are Banned!
Mr. Pierson has temporarily banned reading books until March 19th. The library and all its books are off limits until March 19th.
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Dear Friends and Families,
Our schools are clearly one of the greatest assets of our communities. There is much that is very good in our current schools and we should be thoughtful about insuring we don't lose "the good stuff". At the same time, there has been great attention to the ever increasing costs of public education in our state. How much is too much? What might we do to maintain quality but be more cost effective? Finally, as we consider constant improvement, are there reorganizational steps we could take that might help us better meet student needs, improving upon our best practices and student achievement and/or offering greater opportunities?
From Front Porch Forum posts to conversations I've had with some of you, there is strong interest in better understanding the dialogue and process around long-range planning for our schools. Next Wednesday, March 14, at 6 p.m., the Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) board is hosting a Q & A on these topics. The forum will be broadcast on Mad River Television and is open to the public. Additionally, it is anticipated that similar forums will occur again as this work continues to evolve. Please see the invitation from the board below. I am appreciative of the support of public education and the thoughtful civic engagement of this community; I encourage you all to learn more about this topic, becoming informed so that you can contribute to this work to ensure a sustainable, high quality educational system.
Respectfully, Mr. P.
Redesign Q&A MARCH 14
How can we have healthy class sizes to improve quality but also allow us to plan more predictably and save money? Do we need to combine grades that are currently in different buildings? What are the implications of closing a school? Can we take advantage of efficiencies or cohort grouping to support more opportunities in and out of the classroom? What are the key drivers to providing excellent education and lowering costs? These are the questions of school redesign.
The HUUSD board has already started exploring some of these questions but is in the very early stages of the process. Although we have not even finalized a timeline, we are holding a public Q&A session on Wednesday, March 14 as part of our commitment to engaging the public early and often.
Come find out some of the information we have explored to date and what our next steps are. Please also come with your ideas for saving money, improving quality and/or equity, and for supporting healthy community conversations as we progress through the process.
EVENT DETAILS:
District Redesign Public Q&A and Forum Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Harwood Union High School Auditorium
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CALENDAR UPDATE
March 2018
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Community Announcements
Please note that the opportunities/events listed below are not specifically endorsed or screened by school staff. As always, families should use their own standards and review processes to determine appropriate activities.
2018 Vermont State Scholastic Chess Championships: Saturday, April 7, check in8:30-9:30am, at Berlin Elementary School. Contact Mike Stridsberg for more information at mike@vtchess.into or call 802-223-1948.Mad River Valley Little League registration night, Thursday 3/15, 6-8pm, at Waitsfield Elementary School Youth baseball for Boys and Girls 5-12 years old. T-Ball for 5-6 year olds, Farm League (coach pitch) for 7-8 year olds, American League (minors) for 9-10 year olds, National League (majors) for 11-12 year olds, and Softball for girls 7-12 years old-Online Registration is open now @ www.madriverbaseball.com
2018 Vermont State Scholastic Chess Championships: Saturday, April 7, check in8:30-9:30am, at Berlin Elementary School. Contact Mike Stridsberg for more information at mike@vtchess.into or call 802-223-1948.Mad River Valley Little League registration night, Thursday 3/15, 6-8pm, at Waitsfield Elementary School Youth baseball for Boys and Girls 5-12 years old. T-Ball for 5-6 year olds, Farm League (coach pitch) for 7-8 year olds, American League (minors) for 9-10 year olds, National League (majors) for 11-12 year olds, and Softball for girls 7-12 years old-Online Registration is open now @ www.madriverbaseball.com
CASTING FOR YOUNG ROLES in this summer’s July production of GYPSY at THE SKINNER BARN Six featured roles, three girls and three boys ages 6-12 years old, will be cast locally for this production. Auditions will be by appointment only, on SUNDAY, MARCH 18 at The Valley Players Theater in Waitsfield. Contact Peter Boynton at info@theskinnerbarn.com if your child would like to audition. Send a photo and basic information about your young actor. Rehearsals start the last week of June, and performance run from July 18 through 29. The production will be co-directed by Mr. Boynton and fellow Broadway veteran, Nick Corley and will be a tremendous opportunity to gain professional stage experience for young actor. The directors will be looking for strong singers who move well, and though stage experience is a plus, it not a prerequisite.
Attention All Girls In Grades 3-6
It’s that time of year again, Girls On The Run!!! Registration opens Monday February 19th.The program starts March 19th and will run until May 30th on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30 – 4:30, with the 5K run on June 2nd at Essex Fair Grounds and a final celebration on Wednesday June 6th. You can register at www.GirlsOnTheRunVermont.orgLooking forward to another great year! f you have any questions please feel free to contact me, Chris Tierson at jtierson@gmavt.net or 802-595-3329.
It’s that time of year again, Girls On The Run!!! Registration opens Monday February 19th.The program starts March 19th and will run until May 30th on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30 – 4:30, with the 5K run on June 2nd at Essex Fair Grounds and a final celebration on Wednesday June 6th. You can register at www.GirlsOnTheRunVermont.orgLooking forward to another great year! f you have any questions please feel free to contact me, Chris Tierson at jtierson@gmavt.net or 802-595-3329.
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